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z/zeta | he/they; ell/elli; él/elle | 25

[minglana]

ideologically i dont agree with spain but they kind of went off with coplas

[minglana]

@marazt DIS-HO!!!! discovering lidia garcía aka the queer cañí bot and her podcast was what got me into coplas (again-ish)

EVERYONE (who understands spanish) ID A ESCUCHAR ¡AY, CAMPANERAS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[minglana]

sometimes you just have to go "whatever, im not arguing with an american" and move on with your day

[minglana]

just found out bellingham isnt even in the starting lineup for todays match... why am i even watching it then!!!!

[communistkenobi]

I had a lot of/still have some vestigial arrogance about quantitative methods over qualitative ones, probably in a combination of scientific misogyny + STEMlord superiority. But doing regression analysis and quant-heavy data analysis makes me realise more and more that you can justify basically any claim with numbers, and that you can construct your research in such a way as to output the numbers you want. which does not mean that all data are made up or that quantitative knowledge is all false. I think stories about scientists straight up inventing numbers or fudging experiments on purpose prove that there is a real difference between fraudulent and non-fraudulent research. but those data must always be narrativised & are always already narrativised. The act of presenting numbers itself is doing some of that narration because you’re already arguing that these numbers are worth presenting

[communistkenobi]

People in the notes are rightfully pointing out common issues with data manipulation and pre-loaded conclusions in scientific research (i.e., the academic version of asking "so, how often do you beat your wife?" and so on), but I should have clarified that I'm not really talking about that. I'm talking about completely legitimate, above-board scientific research.

For example, I've had students ask me (in good faith) how it was possible for international medical bodies to report different counts of COVID-19 cases during the early years of the pandemic. And one of the answers is that you need to first define what you mean by a "COVID-19 case." Do you include self-reported incidences? Waste water data? Geo-fenced social media posts about people complaining about their coronavirus symptoms? Federal estimates? Hospital data? How do you compare countries/territories/substate entities with mandatory reporting mechanisms vs countries/territories/substate entities that rely only on voluntary self-reported cases? And what combination of these do you use? How you construct what you mean by "case" is going to impact the outcomes you report. These different counts of COVID-19 cases can all be true simultaneously, not because numbers are made up, but because they all come out of different methodologies that can be equally valid.

And this is true across all science, not just social science. Bill Clinton said it best lol: "it depends on what your definition of the word 'is' is." This feels obvious when you look at scientific research that uses "skull measurements" as their object of analysis - the concept itself is white supremacist, regardless of how "sound" the research is. But even something as apparently self-evident as a COVID-19 case still requires a definition, and how you define your variables is necessarily going to impact how the research goes and what conclusions are drawn.

These definitions are always embedded in political & social assumptions. And again, this does not mean that science is all made up or nonsense or whatever. There is a widespread fetishism of "objective knowledge" that is itself ideological - the idea that knowledge can be divorced from all historical and political contexts, that you can scrub bias from research and simply report the facts. Valuable, well-supported, well-constructed scientific research is always embedded in these contexts. Not just as a result of researcher assumptions, but of the material context it exists in - what research resources are available, how & what research gets funded, the academy's relationship to the state & non-government bodies that both provide data and use that research to inform policy, the historical relationships universities often have with settler-colonialism and imperialism that give them access to "foreign" research subjects, etc etc etc.

So my overall point (which I didn't communicate well) is that data can always say what you want to some extent, for good and for ill. And research results (at least in my experience) tend to surprise you in ways that require explanations, which themselves can be fully justified, but again, exist within many different contexts that influence how you interpret them - and not just the results themselves, but your own surprise at your results

[depsidase]

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[fearsomeandwretched]

Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there's such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don't

[smsomah]

Peru. Between 1934 and 1969. Clarence W. Sorensen

[nostalgic-teddyy]

Imagine the level of whimsy I could reach if I just had $5M in my bank account rn

[minglana]

english ppl always gotta be the center of attention by being colonizers

[classicalcanvas]

Fir Forest (1901) by Gustav Klimt

[scullysflannel]

I think derry girls should have one thousand emmys

[confirmed-and-contorted]

slamming your knights visor down when you’re finished talking to them, like slamming the phone back on the receiver.

[minglana]

im too public transport-coded bc i will take a bus or any public transport for just two stops. no hesitation. even if i have to wait 10 minutes for it

[minglana]

im on the bus and i know thus bus route by heart. as in, just by how the bus turns and the stops it makes, i know exactly where we are. well i look up and im at an unknown place. i forgot that the route had changed bc of consteuction in the coso😭

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

“don’t be silly” um i think i will be silly thanks

[minglana]

ppl not understanding the concept of not telling your parents certain details about your life.... well sorry that my parents' nature is an inquisitive one and they ask too many questions and connect dots that arent actually connected at all!!!